While driving to the station, Will spots one of the college kids following him and receives messages from another member of the group, stating that he 'has been chosen'. They call Garrett and hear an inhuman screeching on the other end. She discovers a book in one of the photos entitled 'The Translation of Wounds'. Carrie sees the footage and forces Will to hand it over to the police. He discovers photos and videos on the phone of a corpse and decapitated head being surrounded by cockroaches. Returning home, Will doesn't notice one of the college kids following him around town. He visits Alicia and it is revealed that he has a crush on her and envies Jeffrey. Will spots some sort of inhuman flesh in Eric's wound. Eric's wound is now infected, and he claims he is suffering from nightmares. Will drops Carrie off at school, where he suspects her professor is sleeping with her. The next morning, Will awakens to discover that overnight, Garrett has sent the phone a photo that shows a pile of bloody teeth.

While inspecting the phone, he receives messages from someone called Garrett, who claims that he is scared and something from the 'tunnel' is following him. Will returns to his house, which he shares with his student girlfriend Carrie.

The kids leave the bar in a panic and Will discovers one of them has left their phone behind. Eric gets into a fight with another guest, resulting in Eric being stabbed in the cheek with a broken bottle. One evening, Alicia (one of his exes), her (current) boyfriend Jeffrey, a drunk Eric, and a group of college kids enter the bar. Will is a New Orleans-based bartender who works at a run-down cockroach-infested bar. The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2019, and was released in the United States on October 18, 2019, by Hulu and internationally on Netflix. The film is based on the novella The Visible Filth by Nathan Ballingrud. Wounds is a 2019 psychological horror film written and directed by Babak Anvari, in his English language debut, and starring Armie Hammer, Dakota Johnson, and Zazie Beetz.

Wounds by Nathan Ballingrud